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Hong Kong needs to make a stand for shareholder democracy. Alibaba’s decision to shift its giant stock market listing to the United States has sparked a debate about control of public companies in the former British colony. Hong Kong’s stock exchange, whose rules wouldn’t have permitted a plan to let Alibaba insiders nominate a majority of board directors, is preparing a public consultation on shareholder rights. But dumping the principle of “one share, one vote” would be a mistake.

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From Ally Financial to Zoe’s Kitchen, initial public offerings may be getting back to basics. Investors had an appetite for almost any new issue until last week. Six of 10 offerings couldn’t fetch the desired price and six were yanked as fear again mingled with greed. A fresh crop of eager sellers, including Moelis and Weibo, may encounter a more rational market than expected.

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Citigroup’s stock looks perfectly priced – for more mediocrity. The mega-bank’s $3.9 billion first-quarter profit was no disaster. Unlike JPMorgan, the firm run by Michael Corbat beat analysts’ estimates. Its bad bank, Citi Holdings, is no longer much of a drag. And the bank even managed to utilize a chunk of its substantial tax breaks and thus boost capital. For now, though, shareholders don’t have much more to cheer about.

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Imagine Comcast’s $45 billion plan to buy Time Warner Cable gets the utility treatment. It isn’t a big stretch these days to liken the pipes that bring the internet into homes to those carrying water or electricity. When power companies and the like merge, though, regulators want consumers to share the spoils.

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JPMorgan’s clean sheet already looks off-white. For the first time in years, its quarterly earnings weren’t cluttered with special items like whale-trade losses or legal costs. The U.S. mega-bank’s $5.3 billion profit in the three months to March fell short of expectations anyway.

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Falling prices of internet stocks are a headache for companies yet to join the market. The sell off that began in the first week of March and broke on April 8 hit Chinese companies particularly hard. It may leave investors pickier about coming initial public offerings of tech companies from the People’s Republic. The haves will be sorted from the don’t-needs.

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Daiichi Sankyo has just reminded corporate Japan of the dangers of overseas adventures. The drugmaker is handing control of its ailing Indian affiliate Ranbaxy to local rival Sun Pharmaceutical in a $3.2 billion deal. The investment has lost almost 40 percent of its value in six years.

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China’s approach to opening up its stock market is the opposite of a Big Bang. Investors are once again getting excited about the prospect of mainland shareholders being allowed to buy Hong Kong stocks. But such hopes have proved premature before. As with any loosening of China’s capital controls, progress is bound to be gradual.

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Alibaba’s shopping spree needs better explanation. The Chinese e-commerce giant has spent $3.8 billion on acquisitions and investments since 2013. The land grab may excite prospective investors ahead of its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO). But Alibaba will eventually have to justify its purchases.

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Moneyball flaws can be found in finance. “The Sabermetric Revolution,” a new book just in time for the start of the Major League Baseball season on March 30, debunks some of the numerical craze sweeping the sport. Two Smith College professors expose how many of the statistics rely on poor measurement, dodgy theory and over-extrapolating small data sets. Even good metrics tend to get arbitraged quickly. Just like on Wall Street.

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